B. Papp szerk.: Studia Botanica Hungarica 38. 2007 (Budapest, 2007)
Szollát, György, Seregélyes, Tibor, S. Csomós, Ágnes; Standovár, Tibor: The flora and vegetation of Gödi Láprét near Göd, Pest county, Hungary
Studia bot. hung. 38, pp. 155-178, 2007 THE FLORA AND VEGETATION OF GÖDI LÁPRÉT NEAR GÖD, PEST COUNTY, HUNGARY GY. SZOLLÁT 1 , T. SEREGÉLYES! 2 , Á. S. CSOMÓS 2 and T. STANDOVÁR 3 1 Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1476Budapest, Pf. 222, Hungary; szollat@nhmus.hu ~ Botanikus Bt., H-2481 Velence, Tünde u. 5, Hungary; calypso@mail.datanet.hu ^Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University H-l 117Budapest, Pázmány P. stny. 1/c, Hungary; standy@ludens.elte.hu The present study is an overview of the vegetation of the Gödi Láprét (meaning the "Fen at Göd") over the years from 1992 to date. The introduction contains a brief account on the tortuous conservation history of the area in context of the subsequent commercialisation of certain parts of the land. The main botanical merits of the area are the fens and their transition to the adjacent sandy vegetation. Conservationally, the fens are of national significance; the sandy areas are nearly intact in two small patches but otherwise rather degraded. The whole area harbours 33 protected and 2 strictly protected plant species, part of the presently recorded flora of 325. Key words: flora, Gödi Láprét, nature conservation, protected plant species, vegetation map INTRODUCTION The Gödi Láprét came into the frontline of interest in 1986, when a staff member at the Danube Research Station in Göd, Tamásné Rath, has first drawn attention to the botanical values of the area. In the following year several other botanists surveyed the area and found it botanically outstanding. A local voluntary conservationist organisation in Göd initiated the preservation of the area in a proposal submitted to the Budapest Office of the National Bureau for Environment and Nature. During the negotiation process it was found that the local authorities approved a general development plan of the town and its environs before light came on the remarkable natural values. Meanwhile (in 1987-1988) the Danubial Agricultural Collective Farm ploughed parts of the area's higher altitudes, despite warning from the National Bureau for Environment and Nature that the preservation process has begun. The leaders of the Collective Farm reckoned well: the National Bureau for Environment and Nature left the case in abeyance. In spite all the happenings Kálmán Ábrahám, under-secretary of
